Russian Media and Society: The Russian 20th century visual culture: the freedom of expression - propaganda - nationalism, 5 op
- Kuvaus
- Suoritustavat
Understanding modern Russia, with its turbulent history, is hardly possible without understanding its art and its visual environment. The course focuses on a search of a national identity and the freedom of expression in the Russian 20th Century art against a wider historical, political and cultural background.
Lecture 1 (2 hours)
The World of Art movement: re-inventing the Russianness: Mikhail Nesterov, Kuz'ma Petrov-Vodkin, Boris Kustodiev.
Lecture 2 (2 hours)
The Russian Futurism. A breakthrough to a new language. Kazimir Malevich and his "Suprematism". The revolution in arts and the social revolution.
Lecture 3 (2 hours)
Art and propaganda. The story of one poster (Dmitri Moor). Art under Stalin. ‘The new Soviet citizen’ and the drama of Alexander Rodchenko.
Lecture 4 (2 hours)
Unofficial and nonconformist art in the USSR: The Bulldozer exhibition (1974). The phenomenon of Ilya Glazunov and Konstantin Vasilyev and the new Russian nationalism. In search of the new national identity.
Lecture 5 (2 hours)
Photography in the USSR. Analytical photography of the Post-Soviet period. Yevgenii Khaldei, Dmitrii Baltermatnz, Antanas Sutkus, Lialia Kuznetsova, Valery Shchekodldin, Sergei Maksimishin, Dmitri Markov.
Lecture 6 (2 hours)
Freedom of art-expression in the USSR. "Desert of forbidden art" (2011). A film about one collection of the Russian art and its keeper (Igor Savitskii). A final discussion.